Kiss My Midterms
Americast
BBC
4.3 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 September 2022
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
We’re racing towards the US midterms but don’t worry, the full Americast team is back together to get stuck into the key issues, characters and races, and which party might come out on top. With a little help from Cliff Young, pollster and President of US Public Affairs at Ipsos.
And Marianna updates us on what our Undercover Voters are being targeted with.
This episode is made by Phil Marzouk and Alix Pickles. The studio director is Emma Crowe. The assistant editor is Louisa Lewis. The senior news editor is Jonathan Aspinwall.
Email Americast@bbc.co.uk with your questions and comments. You can also send us a message or voice note via WhatsApp, to +44 330 1239480
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, it's Sarah here with a quick update. It's now 9 o'clock in the evening in the UK. |
| 0:05.3 | It's tea time here in Washington. And since we recorded America's hurricane, it has now |
| 0:10.1 | made landfall in Florida. It's looking really bad. I'm watching the pictures coming in |
| 0:14.8 | on the television now. We've got high winds, heavy rain and a historic storm surge hitting |
| 0:21.2 | Florida. The governor has warned it could be a nasty, nasty couple of days. Millions |
| 0:26.5 | of Floridians have been told to evacuate anybody who hasn't and I've been told it's too |
| 0:31.1 | late and it's time to hunker down. And those who are still in place are facing one of |
| 0:35.8 | the most dangerous storms to hit the US in a long time. So we will keep across the situation |
| 0:40.6 | and if we need to, we will bring you another episode of America's. |
| 0:43.8 | BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts |
| 0:49.5 | Hello, America's does now. I know the question that is probably looming in your minds right |
| 0:54.0 | now is how did Anthony do in his attempt to summit Kilimanjaro? Did he make it back |
| 0:58.8 | alive? Well, I'm delighted to say he is sat right beside me in the America studio in |
| 1:03.8 | Washington. Hi, Anthony. Hello, I am back. I'm alive. Well done. Thank you. It was a heck |
| 1:09.5 | of a journey. We left at midnight on summit day, hiked for six hours in the darkness with |
| 1:15.2 | the stars overheads, got to Uhuru Peak, watched the sunrise, then a couple of hours back |
| 1:21.3 | down to our base camp where we were actually greeted by all the porters, about 40 porters |
| 1:26.1 | who carried all their food and supplies, intense and everything, singing to us as we walked |
| 1:30.8 | into camp. |
| 1:31.8 | Hey, how are you? Well, it's nice. Hey, hey. |
| 1:35.9 | Come on, man. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. |
| 1:40.6 | Anthony, congratulations Bart, and it's quite a big bud. If the Mariner of spring has |
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